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Meet Anthropic’s Seven Founders as the A.I. Firm Prepares for an IPO

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By: Emmy Martin
Former OpenAI employees started the company in 2021 after disagreements over how to safely build artificial intelligence. An I.P.O. could make them billionaires.
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Anthropic S-1 Reveals Rapid Growth Ahead of Blockbuster IPO

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By: Mike Isaac， Erin Griffith， Lauren Hirsch and Sri Muppidi
Ahead of what could be the largest public listing ever, Anthropic said revenue soared to $16.3 billion in the first half of the year, and it planned to spend $807 billion on A.I. infrastructure.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Anthropic, a powerhouse in A.I., is only five years old and seemingly came out of nowhere.
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What’s Riding on Anthropic Going Public? Nearly Everything.

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By: Erin Griffith and Lauren Hirsch
Anthropic sits atop a pyramid of business partners and suppliers, making it a barometer of the broader economy. Its initial public offering will have widespread implications.
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A.I. Discovered a Critical Vulnerability in PHP, a Coding Language Behind Many Websites

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By: Dustin Volz
The disclosure heightened concerns about A.I.’s potential to upend cybersecurity unless shortcomings are addressed.

© Annegret Hilse/Reuters

The website for the French government was temporarily unavailable on Wednesday amid hacking concerns stemming from major bugs in a piece of software used widely across the internet.
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What Is PHP? Why Are Government and Business Websites Going Offline?

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By: Karla Adam and Dustin Volz
A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems.

© Vincent West/Reuters

A programmer in Guernica, Spain, on Thursday, working on PHP code, software used throughout the internet.
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A.I. and Its Dangers Are Embedded In the Midterm Elections

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By: Tiffany Hsu， Steven Lee Myers and Julian E. Barnes
The midterms are the first elections in which artificial intelligence is integrated into every major social media platform. Efforts to blunt its harms are uneven.

© Nicole Craine for The New York Times

One in five voters plan to use A.I. to look into a race on their ballot, according a survey released this month by the American Association of Political Consultants.
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How a Legal Backlash Against Big Tech Is Forcing Big Changes

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By: Cecilia Kang
A series of lawsuits has created a new de facto regulatory regime as courts order companies like Meta and Google to change their business practices — and pay up.

© Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times

Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. On Wednesday, a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay a record $25 billion penalty for abusing consumer privacy.
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PHP Security Flaw Sets Off Global Rush to Patch, Leaving Websites Offline

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By: Lynsey Chutel， Amelia Nierenberg and Brian O. Otieno
Governments and businesses around the world scrambled to prevent hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in PHP, a popular programming language.

© Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Associated Press

Prime Minister Rob Jetten of the Netherlands in Brussels last week. He said that his cabinet was closely monitoring the online vulnerability caused by a security flaw in PHP.
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How the A.I. Boom Is Driving Up Sales of Gray Paint

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By: Emmy Martin
Tech companies are painting data centers with gray coatings on top of gray concrete and steel to resist fire, rust and static electricity. That has made data centers a fast-growing market for paint makers.
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How Mark Zuckerberg Pushed Meta to Shield Him From California’s Proposed Wealth Tax

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By: Eli Tan and Theodore Schleifer
The billionaire told Meta’s board that he planned to list his Silicon Valley home for sale. The company remade its stock structure to help him pay the tax if voters pass it.

© Victor Llorente for The New York Times

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, at his home in Lake Tahoe, Calif. He has another California home in Palo Alto, close to Meta’s headquarters.
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Meta Earnings Show Increased A.I. Spending, Even as Cash Pressures Grow

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By: Eli Tan
The spending has hurt the Silicon Valley giant’s cash flow, which turned negative. Meta said it would issue a new class of stock to help it raise more money.

© Scott Ball for The New York Times

Construction of Meta’s Richland Parish Data Center in Holly Ridge, La.
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SpaceX Swings to a Profit, as A.I. Business Grows

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By: Ryan Mac and Kate Conger
Elon Musk’s rocket company said its artificial intelligence spending had soared, but revenue more than doubled from its Starlink internet satellite service and A.I. products.

© Andres Kudacki for The New York Times

SpaceX’s performance on the stock market is a barometer for Anthropic, the A.I. company that may go public as early as next month.
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Joel Kaplan, Meta’s Global Policy Chief, to Leave After 15 Years

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By: Eli Tan
Joel Kaplan, a former adviser to George W. Bush known for his Republican ties, had helped Meta build its relationship with the Trump administration.

© Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times

Joel Kaplan, right, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, in Washington in 2025.
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Meta Withdraws $25 Million from Its Midterms Push

✇NYT - Technology
By: Theodore Schleifer
The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.

© Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times

Meta’s annual conference last month in Menlo Park, Calif. The company received $22 million back from its American Technology Excellence Project and $3 million from a California advocacy group it funded.
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